At the World Cup Finals the action often gets as exciting off the slopes as on them and this year was no different. For the 5th time in a row, Wednesday night was reserved for the Annual FIS Football Tournament. 10 teams came out to Meribel Mottaret to face each other on two snow-covered football fields.
Almost 200 players and supporters showed up on the snow-covered football fields to enjoy an evening of fun sports. Teams were mainly made of coaches, team staff, technicians, media representatives and people involved with the World Cup family. As every year, a few skiers came out to support their teams – Steven Nyman, Ted Ligety and Marco Sullivan cheered on team North America, Patrick Kueng and Beat Feuz reversed the usual roles and “coached” their coaches from the sidelines.
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of Alpine Skiing competitions staged annually. It is considered the premier competition in alpine ski racing together with the quadrennial Olympic Winter Games and the biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Some experts event consider winning the World Cup to be athletically a more valuable title than winning gold at the Olympic Winter Games or the World Championships, since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several events throughout the season, and not just in one race. Today, the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup races are held primarily at famous ski resorts in the European Alps, along with regular stops in Scandinavia, North America, and Far East Asia. Competitors attempt to score a maximum of points during the season in five events: slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and super combined. The fifth event, super-combined, was introduced in 2005 and generally consists of a shorter downhill race and a one-run slalom. Sometimes the downhill is replaced by a super-G. Alpine was added to the Olympic winter schedule in 1936.
For further information about FIS Alpine visit: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/
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